Cognitive Science conference

Cognitive Science conference

June 20-24, 2016 group from the Laboratory for Cognitive Studies of Language (Tomsk, Russia) took part in The Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Science (Svetlogorsk, Russia) http://cogconf.ru/eng/ where they presented one oral report on Russian derivational morphology study (Russian derivational morphology: token frequency and age of acquisition effects (Olga Nagel, Irina Temnikova, Alexandra Bub) and 3 posters on the effects of derivational semantics in the processes of mental comparison (Z. I. Rezanova, E. D. Nekrasova, K. S. Shilyaev), on experimental study of multimodal perception of verbal stimuli (Elena Nekrasova) and on cognitive processing of verbal stimulus with connotation (Ksenia Pozovkina). Young scientists (Elena Nekrasova, Ksenia Pozovkina and Alexandra Bub) took advantage of the opportunities provided by the cooperation programme in cognitive and experimental linguistics and expanded their knowledge in the area of experimental linguistics by studying the research works from the joint lists of required literature compiled by the lecturers of the project. Gained knowledge and experience allowed young researchers to participate in scientific dialogues at the conference and start building their own professional network of likeminded people.